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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 2738154" data-attributes="member: 1165">The same reason why male characters are nearly always handsome in some way, unless they've got a broken nose or something.A fit body is one nearly universal sign that males use to evaluate the beauty of a female, the same way a symmetrical face is also considered universally attractive (to both genders, in fact).Particularly muscular women are rare as well, and in D20 women do not suffer penalties to Strength (or bonuses to Wisdom - at least I think the latter). While that may be realistic, it would limit character choice and be politically incorrect as well. So in D20, a strong woman can have the same Strength score as a strong guy but be shorter and lighter than him. In novels, at least, it's rare for the female character to be about "brute strength" anyway. Some novels, such as Wheel of Time, will mention how a female character can't wrestle with the boys, but she can pwn them in her own way. They're often portrayed as faster, which means less scarring, to make up for the lack of damage-dealing strength. And, of course, female spellcasters are overrepresented (they often don't wear armor, which means one less layer between male eyes and their physique, they give off heat when spellcasting, you don't end up with a party full of muscular females, etc). I can't think of any series where the main "tank" warrior was a woman and the main spellcaster was a man.Now, it's not realistic that all warrior women would be unscarred and have beautiful faces, however, and we all know nobody would ever wear a chain mail bra.</blockquote>

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